different between announce vs forthspeak

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin ann?nti?re, from ad + n?nti? (“report, relate”), from n?ntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/
• (UK) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/; enPR: ?'nouns, IPA^(key): /?æ.na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
   • c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain

     Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

   Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

2. (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus

     Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

   Synonyms: abjudicate, judge

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

Translations

References

• announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From forth- +? speak. See Old English forþsprecan.

Verb

forthspeak (third-person singular simple present forthspeaks, present participle forthspeaking, simple past forthspoke, past participle forthspoken)

1. (transitive, archaic) To speak forth; declare; announce.
   • 1841, The Monthly Magazine, or, British Register

     The truth
     Is not to be forthspoken to the mob,
     Unless you wish to die for it.

2. (transitive, archaic) To reveal; divulge.
   • 1854, Henry S. Sutton, Quinquenergia, or, proposals for a new practical theology

     These are the names assigned to the manifestations of God in Christ. And besides these five, none others, pure and fundamental, are found in Christian or Divine Religion. These five Energies are all which Christ forthspeaks in us and reveals.

Derived terms

• forthspeaker
• forthspeaking
• forthspoken